Database: How many grenade launchers did Michigan police departments receive?

Police stand watch on Wednesday as demonstrators protest the shooting death of teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., a St. Louis suburb. Brown was shot and killed by a Ferguson police officer on Aug. 9. The ensuing protests and looting were met by police dressed in combat gear, riding in armored vehicles, firing tear gas and shooting rubber bullets.(Photo: Scott Olsen/Getty Images)

More than $43 million worth of property has been transferred to law enforcement in Michigan from January 2006 through April 23 of this year. Nationally, more than $4.3 billion worth of property has been transferred to law enforcement since the program’s inception in fiscal year 1997, according to Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), which oversees the Law Enforcement Support Office (or 1033) program out of its office in Battle Creek. More than 8,000 agencies participate nationwide.

Use this database to see where the military equipment is going by state and county and the type of items being received, The listed value of the items is what it would cost to buy them if they had not been donated.